Online Bill Paying: How To Get Started

December 27, 2004 07:01 AM

Online Bill Paying: How To Get Started

Excerpt: For some computer users, paying bills online is as natural as using e-mail instead of writing a letter: it's quicker, easier and best of all, free. For others, bill payment represents the final frontier of the Internet: Can I trust a computer program to keep my good credit clean, or should I just stick with writing checks and licking stamps?

For some computer users, paying bills online is as natural as using e-mail instead of writing a letter: it's quicker, easier and best of all, free. For others, bill payment represents the final frontier of the Internet: Can I trust a computer program to keep my good credit clean, or should I just stick with writing checks and licking stamps?

If you're tired of licking stamps and ready to cross the border into electronic bill payment, you'll be happy to learn that it has never been easier.

Today, more and more brick-to-click and virtual banks are offering it free as an online service; others require a certain account minimum or charge a nominal fee, in part to defray the cost of a third-party e-payment provider.

Getting started
Getting started is easy. On your private banking site, you'll find guides to walk you through the steps of how to register the accounts you wish to pay from and payee accounts you wish to pay to. You only need to enter the account information once; your private banking site will keep those accounts available until you remove them. You can always change the accounts from which you wish to pay your bills and add more payees as needed.

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Momentum Is Gaining for Cellphones as Credit Cards - Jan 10, 2005
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Banks Boost Customer Incentives, But Rates on Savings Remain Low - Dec 27, 2004
Banks Test ID Device for Online Security - Dec 24, 2004
Paper Checks Going Bye-Bye? - Dec 08, 2004
Check It Out: Incentives to Pay Bills Online - Dec 07, 2004
'Gift Cards' May Come Loaded With Fees - Nov 29, 2004
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